Arabic vocabulary
حَكِيم is how you say “wise” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وقوله ﴿تَنْزِيلُ الْكِتَابِ مِنَ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ﴾
And His saying: 'The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.'
الْحَكِيمِ — the Wise. A definite adjective 'the Wise', a second attribute agreeing with the divine name in definiteness and governed form. Arabic strings such attributes after the noun, each matching it, to build up a list of qualities.
From: God's Eternal Word →وقوله ﴿تَنْزِيلٌ مِنْ حَكِيمٍ حَمِيدٍ﴾
And His saying: 'A revelation from the Wise, the Praiseworthy.'
حَكِيمٍ — the Wise. An adjective 'Wise', here used as a noun for God and standing in the form the preposition governs, 'from a Wise One'. It is indefinite, naming God by attribute rather than by the definite name.
From: God's Eternal Word →خَرَجَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَحَكِيمُ بْنُ حِزَامٍ وَبُدَيْلُ بْنُ وَرْقَاءَ
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Hakim ibn Hizam, and Budayl ibn Warqa went out.
وَحَكِيمُ — and Hakim. The wa- here adds the second man to the list of those who 'went out'. It is the joining 'and' that links co-equal items, and it is also what lets the earlier singular verb cover several named subjects, each introduced by its own wa-.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →OpenArabic teaches words like حَكِيم through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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